Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambitious little ex-Cockney Herbert Morrison, Britain's Socialist Home Secretary, rose to his feet last week to calm an uproar. His Prime Minister started the uproar two months ago with a statement on Britain's colonial policy: "We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. . . ." Morrison knew that suspicion and distrust had resulted in the Allied world, and that it was high time another British voice tried to still the criticisms of Churchill imperialism. Said Herbert Morrison...
Within a few days Timar is happily forgetful of his job, drinking heavily, scorning Adèle's obese, mouching husband. And then comes sudden death-to Adऑe's husband by fever, to a Negro waiter by an unknown hand. Adèle is calm as ever, boxes up her husband without a tear and persuades the infatuated Timar to use his uncle's influence to get them a partnership trading concession in the back country...
...want to take part in discussions on the Far East. But probably most of the trouble was a vast and inexcusable neglect. In China, it used to be said of General Hsiung: "He can ride with the whirlwind and direct the storm." With Washington's chill and ominous calm, he could last week ride no longer...
...this snug, over-safe corner of the world we need it [war], that we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous untamed streaming of the world. . . . High and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which our doubting minds are slow to find words of proof. Out of heroism grows faith in the worth of heroism...
...until the war's end did he enter seriously into his profession-the law. Within a few years great British manufacturing concerns found in the young barrister the most able scientific expert in the country. Calm, urbane, he could speak clearly, expertly on the most complicated industrial matters, could explain to bewildered judges the manufacturing processes of dyestuffs," celanese, the photoelectric cell. At the age of 38 (1927) Cripps was a King's Counsel earning ?10,000 a year and able to "command almost any fee and any terms...